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Hamilton Pop!s are now a thing.



What took Funko? >_> Really capitalizing on this late. If I thought they might do Mystery Minis for Hamilton, I'd probably skip these. However, since they likely won't, I might at least pick up the Angelica Schuyler. Generally trying to keep my Funko purchasing in check.

Oh, and I watched the next 4 matches in the AEW Women's tourney (rest of round 1 for AEW, round 2 for the Japanese women's branch). Tay Conti's work was better than in the dark matches, but there was this hilarious moment where they did one of those badly telegraphed running-at-an-opponent next to the ropes then getting flipped/tossed over the ropes. Of course, they just *happened* to do it on the side with the ramp, so they didn't have the usual stakes. (Although that's probably smart, considering that it's usually a hard bump.)

Anna Jay was subbed out (due to a legit injury) for Madi Wrenkowski, and I'm kinda wondering who was originally booked to win that match. The shit with Dr. Britt Baker, DMD was humorous since you don't do "Dr." with "DMD" (it's either one or the other; supposedly she's a legit dentist, so this feels like a Ken Jeong thing... except she actually works as a dentist as well, which is unsurprising given that she works at AEW). Fun match, though, and it was good that it was saved to last, because it obscured how long the Aja Kong match was.

Then the round 2 Japanese women's matches were kinda better than the round 1 on the whole. Emi's first match was better, because Veny was a much better performer but Yuka looked decent here... and Mei Suruga, who was ringside for Emi, got involved with some fake-looking kicks when she and her cohort jumped Yuka outside of the ring. Then Aja vs Ryo was better than either of their first-round matches. I kinda expected Ryo to win just because I figured they're putting Yuka over and it'd look more credible for Yuka to beat Ryo... although it'd be crazy as fuck if Ryo wound up winning.

The only round 1 match I haven't seen is Riho vs Serena Deeb, which I might skip because it would entail watching an episode of Dynamite and, knowing the result, I'm not terribly interested in seeing Serena, who I remember as being half-decent, job to a joke wrestler like Riho. I *think* the remainder of the tournament will be going to just be on YT, and then the winner fights Shida (who I guess was in attendance in Japan) at a PPV. I'm half-wondering if Shida was in Japan because they're just going to film the PPV match (and finals match as well). Given that the whole thing is a work, they can just shoot things beforehand.

The Wave Master posted... Now there's some stuff with Bobby Lashley (Milk Dud or The Beta Male. Pick one)

tbh, Lashley is one of those wrestlers I always wanted to like, because the dude looks like a powerhouse, but it's just never happened. His face run with the WWE sucked. His feud with VKM was fucking garbage, including that awful VKM fake death storyline that ended because Benoit died for real (leading to that tribute... before the news came out that Benoit had murdered his wife and kid *then* took his own life) and the terrible decision to put him over on the ECW relaunch which took CM Punk's spot (who I liked at the time, and the fact that the WWE kept under-using him was a big reason why I stopped watching at the time). In some ways, he was both a prototype for Roman Reigns and followed in the tradition of John Cena, where VKM picked a guy he thought should go over and, even when fans weren't feeling it, he kept pushing, and pushing.

I caught part of his TNA run after that where they had him as a heel but... eh, idk, even then I wasn't buying into him as a star. Other than having an incredible physique, he didn't seem to really have much going for him. His promos never even seemed good.

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